Not a good idea to rewrite history. In your "Fiesta Photos and History" article , a caption below a picture of Camarillo family members in the paper states, "Señoritas y Palominos: The Camarillo sisters began riding their family's palomino horses in the equestrian parade starting in 1949." The Historical Museum has the same photo in their Fiesta display with the mistaken "palomino" identification for the horses. The white horses Adolfo Camarillo bred and raised were admired world wide. They all descended from his white stallion "Sultan."
In the Spanish tradition, the family only rode stallions or
geldings; mares were never trained for riding. The late Hattie Feazelle told me
for the first Fiesta parade, in 1924, Adolfo Camarillo invited her to ride with
his family because she had a white half-Arab pony and would fit in with their
white horses.
Adolfo's granddaughter, the late Paquita Parker, told
me her grandfather never sold any of his prized horses. He even refused
President Cardenas of Mexico and the Emperor of Japan when they approached him,
each seeking to buy one for personal use. The president of the albino horse
association came to Adolfo's ranch imploring him to register the horses as
albinos. Adolfo pointed out his horses didn't have the blue eyes and pink skin
of an albino.